Sarah Edelman

Clinical psychologist, author, secularist, past president of Dying with Dignity NSW. Friend of the ABC and occasional guest.

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

Anthony Albanese says we at the Australia Institute need to be fair dinkum about a 25% gas export tax.

Well, this is us being fair dinkum!
#auspol

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

Australia has one of most socially segregated school systems in OECD & the most expensive to parents almost 4 times the OECD average due to our preponderance of private schools charging unregulated fees. Our results have fallen & priv schl fees are in top 5 causes of bankruptcy.

[Quentin Dempster @QuentinDempster]

US citizens Rupert/Lachlan Murdoch go full smear on Australian Treasurer Chalmers’s justified corrective to our country’s distorted property market. Housing unaffordability had to be confronted. But the Murdochs’ propaganda rags call this a “communist manifesto”. Pathetic.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Remember, always, that Murdoch’s NewsCorpse pays no tax in Australia. None. Zip. SFA. Hasn’t for years. Any lecture on tax from a Murdochracy rag is drenched in hypocrisy.

[Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk]

I get it - people hate paying tax:
I don't get it - they love Medicare, aged care, child care, the health system, air traffic controllers, the defence of Australia's borders, fire fighters, police, cheap scripts, free schools, the ABC, pensions for the elderly, trading the govt bond market & roads, to name a few.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

😅😊🤣

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

Tell us, how much hell must the people of Gaza endure??? Their homes destroyed, their children massacred, and now rats gnawing them alive.

When will world leaders say ENOUGH!? When will the complicit media stop sanitizing these crimes against humanity?

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Still probably the best…

[Jommy Tee 🌐 @jommy_tee]

Ahhh the NACC useless one day, utterly pathetic the next.

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

There are moments in war that pierce through the abstractions of strategy and power. The sinking of the Iranian warship Dena in the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean is one such moment. A ship far from its home waters, sailors far from their families, suddenly consigned to the deep, dark silence of the sea. Whatever the legality of war, the image is haunting: young men swallowed by an ocean that knows nothing of geopolitics.

The Indian Ocean has always been, for me, a space of memory, trade, music, and human exchange — not a graveyard of sailors lost to distant rivalries. That an Iranian vessel returning from naval exercises could meet such a fate so far from its shores feels like something from another age, almost like a War of the Worlds moment where the machinery of war intrudes upon the human world with brutal indifference.

One cannot help but think of the families waiting for news that will never come, of the letters unwritten, of lives ended beneath cold waters thousands of miles from home. Strategy may justify such acts. Law may permit them. But the ocean keeps its own counsel. It reminds us that every war, however rationalised, leaves behind human sorrow in its wake.

The question lingers uneasily: for what purpose were these lives lost in the depths of a faraway sea?

#IndianOcean #WarAndHumanity #RememberTheSailors

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

That’s a damn good question.

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

Worst of all, alone in the world, we are using our education funding to build a class system, not to end it. Brilliant column on Australia’s great unmentionable - class. https://t.co/7URoYTpsDg

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@rachelbaxendale @JacintaAllanMP @australian For years, your paper has waged a relentless campaign against trans people.

You amplify hacks, frauds, and religious zealots committed to demeaning, attacking, and erasing trans lives.

This is not journalism. It is a moral failure, and your paper should be ashamed of it.

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

Debate on #Insiders over govt spending. No mention of $Bs spent on subsidising jobs in the UK and USA through the utter stupidity that is AUKUS. Building homes for the US military while Aussies sleep on the street is political and economic madness.

[Whispering Media @_WMedia_]

Statement of the parents of Alex Pretti, Minneapolis

[Dazza @Dazzaat]

Good Morning America

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.

We need fair, sensible, evidence-based tax reform.
https://t.co/vR2mw4s7u9

[Sarah Edelman @sedelman1]

A better symbol https://t.co/wqJZgEz1oY